MAINT PROD (Product) Control Maintenance Records

The following control maintenance records belong to the PROD (Product) area within the MAINT (Maintenance) category.

Allow Duplicates In Product Families

Indicate whether a product can be included and displayed multiple times in a product family in web order entry and sales order entry. More:

Branch Fields Required To Add Product Demand

New in Release 9.0.4

Define which branch fields are required for calculating demand on the Add Demand window. More:

Default Nonstock Product Template

Enter the default product template the system uses when creating a non-PDW nonstock product. More:

Delete Stock Location With Blank Status And Zero Quantity

For each branch, enter Yes to delete stock locations with a blank location status in Product Location Maintenance when the on-hand balance goes to zero. If set to No, the system takes no action.

Disable Printing MTRs at RF Close

Indicate by branch or territory if you want to print Mill Test Report documents when the RF process closes and instead print the document with the manifest printing process. For non-RF branches, documents will always be printed when the picking steps are confirmed.

Do Not List Item More Than Once On Add Demand Screen

New in Release 9.0.5

Indicate if you want to list products more than once on the Add Demand window. More:

Enable Laminate Products

Indicate whether to activate product laminate mode. The default is No.

Enable ENFU To Print MTRs

Indicate if you want Mill Test Reports to print automatically with Eclipse Network File Utility (ENFU) configurations. More:

Inventory Inquiry Hide Process Lifecycles

Select Yes to hide the lifecycle process status when displaying products in Inventory Inquiry and in product search displays.

Labels For User Defined UPCs

Define UPC labels you want to use in the Price Updating ID Maintenance window. The options on this window only display what you enter in this control maintenance record. Access this window through Product Maintenance > Additional Data > UPC Code Maintenance option. Then from the Edit menu, select User Defined Maintenance.

Leave Delete Products In The Pricing Index

Indicate whether to leave products with the Delete status in the pricing index, even if they have a quantity of zero. More:

Max Products Displayed When Sequencing A PriceLine/BuyLine

Enter the maximum number of products the system displays when resequencing price lines and buy lines. More:

MTR Document Profile

Select which image, attached at the product level, to associate with a product's Mill Test Report (MTR). The system uses this record to distinguish which image is the MTR document, if there are multiple images attached to a product. Products with attached images display the image icon in Mill Test Report Maintenance. To attach an MTR document to a product file, see Attaching MTR Documents to Product Records in the Product Maintenance documentation.

Product Lifecycle Types

Use this record to set up type descriptions to identify product lifecycles by assigning short descriptions and icons. More:

Product Maintenance Authorization Levels

Use this record to restrict editing access for each field and hot key/menu option in Product Maintenance. More:

Strategic Pricing Core Status Groups

Enter the product core status families you want to use to group like products together when assigning core statuses for Strategic Pricing. More:

Tract Housing Customer Note ID

Create a note ID to reference tract housing notes through User Defined Customer Notes. Then you can select and define the note itself through the Tract Housing Plan Maintenance. The notes display on the Tract Housing Plan Lot Selection window and are transferred to the bid or sales order to display as Internal Notes.

Tract Housing MiscChrg Product

When you use set plans with options, you can find that you incur costs that should be passed on to the customer. For example, if your standard plan is a model for 4 bedrooms, but you have a loft option for that fourth bedroom. The options for the loft will be different from the standard plan, such as a door no longer being required. The cost and price difference must be accounted for in your plan. Use this control maintenance record to define which product should be added to the order when the plan is changed. The price/cost difference for all the items in the original plan are consolidated under this one line item.

Tract Housing Plan Types

Indicate the housing plan types you want to allow for Tract Housing Plans. Use these plan types when creating new tract housing plans to indicate the kind of plan for each home model. For example, create a Indoor Lighting plan to limit the plan's items to all products related to the required lighting elements for that plan.

User To Log Automatic Inventory Adjustments Under

Enter the user ID to assign to automatic inventory adjustments.

Valid Product Activity Sources

Enter product activity sources, up to eight characters long, that users can assign to activity log entries (trackers). Activity sources describe how, where, or why the tracker originated. The system uses these categories as sort and selection criteria for viewing the Product Activity Log or printing reports from the log.

Valid Product Catalogs

Enter the vendor product catalogs to which you can point products in Product Maintenance or sales order entry for more information. More:

Valid Product Certification Codes

Enter certification codes, up to 11 characters long, that describe types of regulated products, such as CFC for Chlorinated Fluorocarbon. Users can then assign this code to the appropriate regulated product using the Notes > Certification option in Product Maintenance.

Valid Product Commission Groups

Enter product commission groups to which users can assign related products for commission purposes. More:

Valid Product Commodity Codes

Enter commodity codes to assign to products in the Commodity Code field in Product Maintenance. The system uses commodity codes for selecting, sorting, and reporting purposes throughout the system. More:

Valid Product Select Codes

Enter product select codes to assign to product records in the Product Select Code field in Product Maintenance. The system uses product select codes for reporting purposes.

Valid Product Sort Codes

Enter sort codes to assign to product records in the Sort Code field in Product Maintenance. Sort codes can be up to 11 characters long. If you leave this record blank, users can assign any sort code to a product.

Valid Product Zones

Complete this record if your company uses product zones. Defining zones enables users to restrict product selection by bill-to customer by zone.